--- title: "22 Mind Quotes By Robert A. Heinlein" description: "22 Mind quotes by Robert A. Heinlein. Plus more from Robert A. Heinlein and more Mind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/237/robert-a-heinlein-209_ability_ninety-percent-of-all-human-wisdom-is-th_5478.jpg" --- > [Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/ninety-percent-of-all-human-wisdom-is-the-ability-to-mind-your-own/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/237/robert-a-heinlein-209_ability_ninety-percent-of-all-human-wisdom-is-th_5478.jpg) > [My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/my-old-man-taught-me-two-things-mind-own-business-and-always-cut-cards/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/robert-a-heinlein-209_cards_my-old-man-taught-me-two-things-mind-own_1715448.jpg) > [Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/anything-which-is-physically-possible-can-always-be-made-financially/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/robert-a-heinlein-209_engineering_anything-which-is-physically-possible-ca_3160344.jpg) > [Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/never-pick-up-a-stray-kitten-unless-you-ve-already-made-up-your-mind/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1bf/robert-a-heinlein-209_kitten_never-pick-up-a-stray-kitten-unless-you_1272912.jpg) > [His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/his-was-not-a-small-mind-bothered-by-logic-and-consistency/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/robert-a-heinlein-209_bothered_his-was-not-a-small-mind-bothered-by-log_551474.jpg) > [The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-mind-s-ability-to-rationalize-it-s-own-shortcomings-is-unlimited/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/robert-a-heinlein-209_ability_the-mind-s-ability-to-rationalize-it-s-o_234688.jpg) > [You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/you-got-the-impression-that-he-never-needed-to-sleep-just-ten/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbb/robert-a-heinlein-209_dust_you-got-the-impression-that-he-never-nee_2485700.jpg) > [Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/man-has-no-moral-instinct-he-is-not-born-with-moral-sense-you-were/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/robert-a-heinlein-209_born_man-has-no-moral-instinct-he-is-not-born_537341.jpg) > [The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-capacity-of-the-human-mind-for-swallowing-nonsense-and-spewing-it/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aea/robert-a-heinlein-209_action_the-capacity-of-the-human-mind-for-swall_2201669.jpg) > [Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/your-enemy-is-never-a-villain-in-his-own-eyes-keep-this-in-mind-it/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/robert-a-heinlein-209_enemy_your-enemy-is-never-a-villain-in-his-own_2033570.jpg) > [Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/why-do-some-people-act-as-if-making-money-offended-their-delicate/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fa/robert-a-heinlein-209_ashamed_why-do-some-people-act-as-if-making-mone_3148244.jpg) > [Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/citizenship-is-an-attitude-a-state-of-mind-an-emotional-conviction/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/067/robert-a-heinlein-209_attitude_citizenship-is-an-attitude-a-state-of-mi_2855338.jpg) > [In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/in-the-eighty-or-ninety-years-i-have-given-to-this-subject-trying-to/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84f/robert-a-heinlein-209_can-do_in-the-eighty-or-ninety-years-i-have-giv_1703667.jpg) > [God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/god-is-omnipotent-omniscient-and-omnibenevolent-it-says-so-right-here/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/259/robert-a-heinlein-209_atheism_god-is-omnipotent-omniscient-and-omniben_659862.jpg) > [The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-two-highest-achievements-of-the-human-mind-are-the-twin-concepts/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f8/robert-a-heinlein-209_achievement_the-two-highest-achievements-of-the-huma_557300.jpg) > [Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/mighty-little-force-is-needed-to-control-a-man-whose-mind-has-been/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbd/robert-a-heinlein-209_amount_mighty-little-force-is-needed-to-control_2641532.jpg) > [There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/there-are-two-ways-of-forming-an-opinion-one-is-the-scientific-method/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9c/robert-a-heinlein-209_academic_there-are-two-ways-of-forming-an-opinion_1021871.jpg) > [“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/it-is-a-truism-that-almost-any-sect-cult-or-religion-will-legislate/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/robert-a-heinlein-209_censorship_it-is-a-truism-that-almost-any-sect-cult_369279.jpg) > [The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-future-is-better-than-the-past-despite-the-crepe-hangers/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e45/robert-a-heinlein-209_crepes_the-future-is-better-than-the-past-despi_2066898.jpg) > [There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/there-are-hidden-contradictions-in-the-minds-of-people-who-love/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/robert-a-heinlein-209_animal_there-are-hidden-contradictions-in-the-m_616485.jpg) > [Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/secrecy-is-the-keystone-to-all-tyranny-not-force-but-secrecy-and/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b9/robert-a-heinlein-209_atheist_secrecy-is-the-keystone-to-all-tyranny-n_975905.jpg) > [“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/there-has-grown-up-in-the-minds-of-certain-groups-in-this-country-the/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/325/robert-a-heinlein-209_certain_there-has-grown-up-in-the-minds-of-certa_701358.jpg) ## Other authors on Mind - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 486 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 242 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/rajneesh/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 201 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dalai-lama-26000.jpg) Dalai Lama 179 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/dalai-lama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-eckhart-tolle-31242.jpg) Eckhart Tolle 170 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/eckhart-tolle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 146 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/swami-vivekananda/) - [Samuel Johnson 136 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jiddu-krishnamurti-49572.jpg) Jiddu Krishnamurti 126 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/jiddu-krishnamurti/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gautama-buddha-37107.jpg) Gautama Buddha 118 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/gautama-buddha/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 117 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-napoleon-hill-70196.jpg) Napoleon Hill 115 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/napoleon-hill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 103 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/thomas-jefferson/) ## More by Robert A. Heinlein > [Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/social-responsibility-above-the-level-of-family-or-at-most-of-tribe/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/my-folks-tried-to-make-a-preacher-of-me-and-missed-by-a-narrow-margin/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/ninety-percent-of-all-human-wisdom-is-the-ability-to-mind-your-own/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/if-we-blow-ourselves-up-we-will-do-it-by-misapplication-of-science-if/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/nor-would-anybody-suspect-if-was-one-thing-all-people-took-for/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/women-will-forgive-anything-otherwise-the-race-would-have-died-out/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/most-neuroses-and-some-psychoses-can-be-traced-to-the-unnecessary-and/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/no-statement-should-be-believed-because-it-is-made-by-an-authority/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/some-people-are-ants-by-nature-they-have-to-work-even-when-it-s/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-instinct-to-survive-is-human-nature-itself-and-every-aspect-of/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/i-tried-to-dig-out-of-the-computer-a-call-directory-for-luna-but-it/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [“this has more aspects than a cat has hair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/this-has-more-aspects-than-a-cat-has-hair/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/never-own-more-than-you-can-carry-in-both-hands-at-a-dead-run/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality." ~ By His Bootstraps / Robert A. Heinlein”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/in-wilson-s-scale-of-evaluations-breakfast-rated-just-after-life/) [Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/) > [Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/ignorance-is-curable-stupid-is-forever/) [Robert A. 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